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Download full textGuthrie, John T.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – 1983
Growing scientific literature provides a perspective of literacy that is at variance with traditional points of view, which see literacy as a unitary, dichotomous, psychological capability that is learned with the appropriate educational opportunity. However, an individual is not easily categorized as literate or illiterate. While the goal is to…
Descriptors: Functional Literacy, Literacy, Literacy Education, Reading Ability
Guthrie, John T.; Kirsch, Irwin S. – Phi Delta Kappan, 1984
Proposes redefining the problem of illiteracy in terms of a "social-interaction perspective" that would emphasize the need "to acculturate students to the practices of reading in their communities" and the broad range of reading competencies required by today's society. (JBM)
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy, Functional Reading
Peer reviewedKirsch, Irwin; Guthrie, John T. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1977
After reviewing the literature on functional literacy, proposes that new measures be developed and classified according to the practical information to be obtained and the decisions to be made from them. (AA)
Descriptors: Adults, Elementary Secondary Education, Functional Literacy, Literacy
